More than 47,500 dogs were abandoned by their owners in the UK last year, figures from the Dogs Trust suggest.(BBC News - U.K. News, 1 October 2015)

The Iraqi military command has launched a campaign to re-enlist soldiers and officers whoabandoned their units.(The New York Times - World News, 28 September 2014)

A homeless cat in Russia has won praise for caring and keeping warm a baby boyabandoned in a chilly entrance-way.(Sydney Morning Herald - World, 17 January 2015)

A newborn with Down syndrome was abandoned by his biological parents and left with his surrogate mother in Thailand.(CNN - U.S. News, 4 August 2014)

And now reports have emerged that Cheryl Fernandez-Versini was abandoned by her husband, Jean-Bernard over Christmas.(Daily Mail - TV&Showbiz, 19 December 2015)

A train conductor in Spain left more than 100 passengers stranded as heabandoned the train because his shift had ended.(UPI - Odd News, 15 September 2016)

On Sept. 1986, Katheryn Deprill was a babyabandoned in the bathroom of a Burger King in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.(NBC Today, 12 December 2014)

Tristan Jacobson was abandoned by his drug-addicted mother four years ago on the steps of a homeless shelter in Springfield.(The Vancouver Sun - World, 25 April 2016)

Police charge a 30-year-old woman with attempted murder after sheabandonedher newborn baby boy in a drain in western Sydney.(BBC News - World News, 23 November 2014)

Questions

7 examples:

Will Rio be dotted with abandoned venues like in Athens?(CBC Radio in CBC News - World, 17 August 2016)

Should we be nostalgic for the bright future we have abandoned?(Forbes - Technology, 26 May 2014)

So what are companies to do when such a licence has been abandoned or mislaid?(Forbes - Entrepreneurs, 27 May 2014)

A farcical pitch invasion sees Blackpool's game against Huddersfield abandoned, but what happens next?(BBC Sport - Football, 2 May 2015)

Once you’ve abandoned the pursuit of balancing money and life in favor of integrating the two, the question still remains: Now what?(Forbes - Personal Finance, 12 November 2014)

What woman hasn’t abandoned a low-carb plan at the sight of a Jaffa cake or tumbled headlong from the 5:2when someone protests that they made chocolate cake ‘just for you’?(Daily Mail - Health, 13 July 2015)

Major-league baseball fans north of the border no doubt had a tough time seeing the Washington Nationals make the playoffs this post-season, considering this is the team that abandoned Montreal 10 years ago. 10 years?(The Vancouver Sun - Sports, 27 October 2014)

Other sentences

100 examples:

He abandoned hope.

Tom has abandoned me.

He abandoned all hope.

He abandoned socialism.

He likes abandoned buildings.

I picked up an abandoned dog.

The train station is abandoned.

He hid in an abandoned building.

The company abandoned that project.

His plan ought not to be abandoned.

I thought this building was abandoned.

This farm seems to have been abandoned.

There was an abandoned car by the river.

The army abandoned the town to the enemy.

I feel abandoned by the only woman I love.

There are many abandoned cats in the world.

I have abandoned the idea of buying a house.

Abandoned dogs usually end up in dog pounds.

Vandals wreaked havoc in the abandoned house.

Many drivers abandoned their cars in the snow.

Kenji abandoned his hope of becoming a doctor.

All these notions I have long since abandoned.

The legend says he was abandonedin the woods.

The suspect was holed up in an abandoned factory.

Tom abandoned cigarettes after the doctor's warning.

There are a lot of abandoned houses in the neighborhood.

The small town, abandoned long ago, seems frozen in time.

The digging had left a network of abandoned mines and tunnels.

The police found a dead body in an abandoned car near the park.

When I woke up, no-one was at home, and I was abandoned all day.

Tom says that he saw a ghost walking around the abandoned house.

Environmentally damaging projects should be abandoned systematically.

When she was at university, Yuriko abandoned herself to sexual passion.

The floorboards in the abandoned house creaked when we stepped on them.

The bishop felt pity for the immigrants who were abandoned, and gave them help.

The French abandoned the project of the construction of the Panama Canal in 1889.

Because of the bad weather, any thought of sight-seeing in the city was abandoned.

Tom was kidnapped and held by his captors in an abandoned building on Park Street.

A long-time abandoned building gets occupied by Koreans for commercial activities.

One school in the U.K. has abandoned textbooks in favour of iPads in the classroom.

The government has nowabandoned its plans to privatize parts of the health service.

The woodcutter led the children into the deepest part of the forest and abandoned them.

There was a swimming hole in the abandoned quarry where marble had been found years ago.

When I woke up in the morning, there was no one in the house. I was abandoned for the whole day.

The main streets of many small towns have been all but abandoned thanks, in large part, to behemoths like Wal-Mart.

The main streets of many villages have in fact been abandoned. The main reason is the advance of big stores like Wal-Mart.

The entire village left the next day in aboutthirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.

Due to lack of money the more advantageous solution initially chosen was abandoned in favour of a necessarily less favourable second choice.

An admiring fan once asked Christopher Columbus how he managed to procure funding for all of his amazing journeys. Columbus then took the fan to an abandoned alley, took out a pistol, and said "That's how".